Awesome idea, implementation and design!
Thank you!
Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
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#92Is there somewhere to download a PDF to print out?
No, but perhaps I could add this as a paid option.
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#93Cool idea and really nice looking site. Pricing is quite high - 24 pages maximum for $23.99. There are 100-page coloring books on Amazon for $5.00, and the age group that really would be using this is not going to remember what was on the page a week from the day they did it. Maybe it can work in the nice of "adult coloring books" - I've seen some social media content where people really go crazy on coloring books, a…
Thanks! I priced it as low as I could given the costs of printing the book, Sora's API costs, and the human effort that goes into it (there are some creative choices to be made too!). The 100 page books you see on Amazon aren't personalized and probably not the best quality. I'm also hoping a completed page from one of these books will be a nice keepsake for the parents as well as being more of an incentive for a child to exercise some creativity.
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#94This is a cute and simple idea! I'd like to see what a real physical book looks like before I buy it though. Do you have real pictures of a printed one? I think our kids would appreciate seeing the original (even if a small thumbnail) along side it. You can't always tell from these AI drawings that it was originally you and your family. Also, it's REALLY expensive. $30 for a book that my kids will draw on in one or t…
Thanks! I've added a section at the bottom of the site showing some real photos of an actual coloring book I got in the mail. There are thumbnails of all photos uploaded on the back.
$24 + postage is the lowest I could reasonably charge for this. Printing costs are a bit more than half of that, OpenAI charge a surprising amount for image generation, but there is also a good amount of human effort (and creative choices) in generating the book. It's not a fully automated process and I hope that's evident from the quality of the end product.
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#95The comics look pretty Miyazaki-inspired, like all of the comics I've seen lately. I've kinda started to dislike this look because it's _everywhere_ that low-effort comics are these days. Maybe worth trying to train a better style for this. This is probably something where you could put a little effort in up-front (ie: using a model that's for segmentation to get outlines, using some classic image-processing for boun…
It doesn't look particularly Miyazaki style to me; it's just a generic cartoon style. I think the Ghiblipocalypse has gotten people on edge.
The author has since listed the prompt elsewhere in the comments. It includes, "The drawing is in a simple Studio Ghibli portrait style."
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#96This is fucking amazing! Everyone and their mother are trying to hop on the band wagon of AI and make a half assed service just because it may sell just due to the "ai" tag attached to it - this is different! Chapeau bas! It's simple but brilliant. It's a great example of what a good idea is - with minimal effort he made an epic product focusing not an AI, but what AI can bring to the table and executing it flawlessl…
Thanks so much! Really glad you like it.
Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
#97The comics look pretty Miyazaki-inspired, like all of the comics I've seen lately. I've kinda started to dislike this look because it's _everywhere_ that low-effort comics are these days. Maybe worth trying to train a better style for this. This is probably something where you could put a little effort in up-front (ie: using a model that's for segmentation to get outlines, using some classic image-processing for boun…
It doesn't look particularly Miyazaki style to me; it's just a generic cartoon style. I think the Ghiblipocalypse has gotten people on edge.
OP confirmed that their prompt includes a directive for Ghiblification. Given that Miyazaki is known to hate GenAI I really can't condone... I mean there's nothing anyone can do about it but it's just kind of sad.
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#98Seems like this cat (and various variants in similar settings) was a top rated image in Sora's explore/images a week ago. Was it yours, should it be credited, or did you hit edit prompt to get a variant? No worries, just wondering how that should work.
Wow, yes you're right. I did in fact take that image from the Sora homepage because I thought it was cute.
I pretty much just assumed they're all in the public domain. I can't find the image anymore so I've decided to remove it for now. I generated the other three myself.
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#99Re: Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
#100from clevercoloringbook.com: > Please only upload photos that are in line with OpenAI's Usage Policy. > We are not able to include any photos that do not follow their policy in the final printed book. from openai.com/policies > Editing uploaded images or videos that contain real people under the age of 18 is not permitted. The first two sample pictures on the page contain of adolescent children. Are you concerned abo…
Great point. As per our TOS - users of the site must be over 18 and have the consent of everyone in the image (i.e. their own kids, relations etc).
I put that line about OpenAI's usage policy there for practical reasons. If someone orders something that OpenAI refuses to generate (like a photo of Bart Simpson say), then I can't include it in the printed book. With this project, if someone uploads content that's in any way inappropriate, we'll see it and refuse to fulfill the order (and take other appropriate actions, if needed)